5 years ago

Five years ago today at 8:52pm I gave birth to my precious first- born-son, Preston.  We were at a New Year's Eve party when I thought I was going into labor and we called the doctor.  He told me I could come on in to the hospital or just stay and enjoy the party.  We were having a good time with our friends, Donna and Pat Dixon, and I wasn't in pain, so we decided to stay.  That night the reality set in that our baby was coming soon and it was hard for me to sleep that night.  I stayed up late scouring through the books I had bought trying to decide if I was in real labor or not.  Well, it wasn't much longer that my water broke in the middle of the night and we headed to the hospital. Jeremiah loves to remind everyone that I took a shower and shaved my legs before we went to the hosptial.  Preston has been asking me all day to tell the story of the day he was born and we even called Nana this morning so she could sing Happy Birthday to him.  We both reminded him of how he had beautiful black curly hair and she watched him get his first bath in the hospital.  

Jeremiah has to work today, so we had a special day with Preston yesterday.  We took him to Chuck E. Cheese's.  It's only the second time he has been there.  We all had so much fun playing the games.  Then, we went to Target to get a new Transformer and a slushie.  Oh, to be 5!  When I tucked Preston in last night I asked him what he wanted for his special birthday breakfast and he replied, "A pancake with a candle in it!"  I got so excited because we have a new waffle iron from Nana and I said, "Oh, I could make you waffles with a candle!"  He was very serious and said, "Never mind, just make me a regular breakfast of cereal."  So he had cereal today.  

Time really does go by fast.  I can't believe he is 5. 

Identity and Legitimacy

A prayer for our daughter...Psalm 139:13-16  "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.  I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.  My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place.  When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body.  All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be."

I started praying today for our daughter's spirit.  I was lead to do this through a devotional that I was reading to Preston and it just called to me to begin praying for our daughter's spirit as well.  Here is piece that spoke to my adopting heart today concerning the adoption journey of our daughter, "Your Father made you special.  He chose the day and the time you would start your life.  He chose your parents and wove you together in your mother's womb.  God has thought extensively about you."  It goes on to say, "God smiled on the day he created you.  He has been waiting a millennia for the particular point in to when you were conceived.  He took great joy in his heart when his plans actually came together."  - Blessing the Spirit.  

Wow.  Could you join us in praying for our baby's spirit?  We don't know the day and time when we our daughter will join our family, but he has been planning this in his book all along.  Baby Eye we love you.